Rubber playing ball



C F. FLEMMING.

RUBBER PLAYING BALL. APPLICATION FILYED FEB. 8. 1921.

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UNHTED QDFFHCZEO CHARLES E. FL EIVHJIING, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MILLER RUBBER COMPANY, OF AKRON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

RUBBER PLAYING BALL.

Original application. filed. November 15, 1920, Serial No. 424,156. Divided and this application filed February 8, 1921.

To whom it may cancer-n Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. FLEM- MING, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Akron, Ohio, have invented cer- 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Playing Balls, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in sponge rubber articles, such as 10 playing balls, which will produce a more homogeneous structure than is obtained in the practice now followed.

llhe invention aims to provide a sponge rubber article of the class described, having 15 fabric embodied in or incorporated with the surface of the article and permanently united therewith, and preferably in such a manner as to form an ornament for the surface of the article, and the invention com- 2O prises the novel article hereinafter described and particularly defined by the appended claim.

The invention is illustrated in the acconn panying drawing in which the figure is a 25 perspective view of a playing ball according to'my invention.

this drawing the numeral 1 designates Serial No. 443,488.

a playing ball which is preferably made of sponge rubber and in the manner disclosed in an application filed by me on the 15th day of November 1920, No. 424,156, of which the present application is a division.

This ball has a smooth exterior surface to which is applied a surface layer or layers of fabric, indicated at 4. The fabric may cover more or less of the surface of'the ball, but in the embodiment shown, is in the form of an ornament, such as a star. The fabric is applied to the article while the latter is in an 'unvulcanized condition and during vulcanization becomes embedded in the surface and integrally united therewith. 1 prefor to apply two fabric ornaments 0n diametrically opposite sides of the. ball.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, a sponge rubber ball having a fabric ornament embedded in the wall thereof so as to be flush with the remaining surface of the ball and united thereto by vulcanization.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

CHARLES F. FLEMll/llh G. 

